Infrastructure Engineer

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Base pay range: $/yr - $/yr

At Depot, we are on a mission to redefine software collaboration and accelerate developers everywhere. We are creating a build performance and developer platform unlike any other, combining performance, empathy, and centralized collaboration to enable companies to iterate exponentially faster.

We launch millions of EC2 instances per month and orchestrate half a petabyte of cache data to accelerate CI jobs and local builds. We are looking to hire a Staff Infrastructure Engineer who can build for the next level of scale.

For this role, you should be a seasoned expert with robust systems engineering skills and the ability to engage deeply in technical discussions. As part of a small team, you will work side-by-side with other engineers to test ideas, build proofs of concept, and ultimately ship quality solutions to customers. You will be a key contributor with the ownership and autonomy to see projects through from beginning to end.

We are an equal opportunity employer and remote‑only company. At this time, we can only support hiring within North America and Europe for this role.

• Infrastructure Management:
  Maintain and evolve the AWS infrastructure, ECS clusters, and networking layer using Terraform.
• Systems Engineering:
  Dive deep into low-level systems including compute isolation (Firecracker/micro
  
  VMs), storage optimization (Ceph, LVM), and performance debugging across the stack.
• Automation & Tooling:
  Automate critical workflows such as AMI updates, machine binary deployments, and internal tooling to improve developer velocity.
• Observability:
  Implement and refine tracing, monitoring, and SLAs for core services like Build Kit builds, Depot Cache, and the registry.
• Backend Development:
  Write and maintain Go services responsible for infrastructure provisioning, orchestration, and management.
• Reliability:
  Participate in the on‑call rotation, leading incident response, and supporting deep technical debugging of production issues.

• 7+ years of experience in infrastructure, systems engineering, or Dev Ops roles.
• Proficiency with AWS, Go, and Terraform.
• Experience with or a desire to learn the technologies that power Depot, including Firecracker/micro
  
  VMs, Ceph, LVM, Open Telemetry (OTEL), Click House, and Vitess.
• Strong debugging skills in distributed systems, networking, and storage, with experience in high‑scale production environments.
• A self‑starter who is excited about hard challenges and comfortable working in an environment with ambiguity.
• The ability to take complex problems and feedback, then distill them down to clear and focused solutions.
• Capable of asking questions, experimenting, and advocating for what is right.
• A strong desire for ownership, with the ability to define goals and execute on them from idea to measurement.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, and comfort collaborating asynchronously across time zones.

Mid-Senior level

Full‑time

Information Technology

Software Development